Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "The Baby and the Pup"Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers - "Preachin' Blues" [0:02:25]Bo Carter - "Beans" [0:08:46]The Whoopee Makers - "Rush Inn Blues" [0:11:24]Butterbeans & Susie - "Get Yourself a M

He's an evolutionary dead end. from May 31, 2022

Jun 1st, 2022

Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Trade Winds"Don Byas - "I Don't Know Why" [0:02:58]Euneeda Bodenheim - "Euneeda This" [0:10:13]Herm "Sonny" Blount - "Old Man River" [0:12:25]Vaughn De Leath - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" [0:15:23]Slim Gaillard Quar

An insatiable vulture snacking on the carcasses of the musical dead. from May 24, 2022

May 25th, 2022

Rube Bloom - "That Futuristic Rag" [0:00:00]Dodo Marmarosa - "Tone Paintings I" [0:02:46]Gus Bodenheim - "A Bodenheim Birthday Bulletin" [0:08:23]Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten - "Hot-Tempered Blues" [0:11:27]Sol K. Bright & His Hollywaiia

"God knows what I've done. Let's just move on." from May 17, 2022

May 18th, 2022

Jess Stacy - "In the Dark — Flashes" - Odeon OR 2233Dodo Marmarosa - "Tone Paintings II" - private recording, Hollywood, 1947 [0:02:59]Gus Bodenheim - "The Art of the Non Sequitur" - The Art of the Non Sequitur [0:09:18]The Milt Herth Trio

He fishes on his side. You fish on your side. And no one fishes in the middle. from May 10, 2022

May 11th, 2022

Howard McGhee Sextet - "Up in Dodo's Room" - Dial 1010 [0:00:00]Horace Henderson & His Orchestra - "Kitty on Toast" - Vocation 5433 [0:03:16]Gus Bodenheim - "OCNN+ Extends Bodenheim History Month" - Gus Bodenheim's Commercial Scams [0:10:01]

Has the curiosity of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from May 3, 2022

May 4th, 2022

Willie "The Lion" Smith & His Cubs - "Harlem Joys"Kitty Gray & Her Wampus Cats with Oscar "Buddy" Woods - "Baton Rouge Rag" [0:02:33]Bob & Ray - "Members of the Audience Write a Song" [0:08:08]Lani McIntyre & His Orchestra ft. Hal Aloma - "

Suggests you go find your own wormhole. from Apr 26, 2022

Apr 27th, 2022

Fats Waller - "The London Suite, Pt. 6: Whitechapel"Pete Johnson - "Death Ray Boogie" [0:03:20]Gus Bodenheim - "OCNN+ (The Expanded Old Codger News Network)" [0:09:02]Bo Carter - "Same Thing the Cats Fight About" [0:12:00]Earl "Fatha" Hine

Radio needs him as nature needs mosquitoes. from Apr 19, 2022

Apr 20th, 2022

Fats Waller - "London Suite Pt. 4: Bond Street"Fats Waller - "London Suite Pt. 5: Limehouse" [0:03:40]Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons - "Boogie Woogie Man" [0:08:51]Gus Bodenheim - "Apologia for This Week's Absence" [0:12:29]Dave Bartholomew

If he had two ice creams, you can go to Hell. from Apr 12, 2022

Apr 13th, 2022

Fats Waller - "London Suite - Pt. 1 Piccadilly" [0:00:00]Fats Waller - "London Suite - Pt. 2 Chelsea" [0:02:23]Mississippi Sheiks - "Sales Tax" [0:09:42]Sophie Tucker - "Max from the Income Tax" [0:12:48]Blind Willie Johnson (with Willie B

Smoked metaphors and pickled syntax. from Apr 5, 2022

Apr 6th, 2022

Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Mellow Mood"Robert Wilkins - "Rolling Stone" [0:02:59]Gus Bodenheim - "An Open Letter to the Ladies" [0:10:57]Barney Kessel's All-Stars - "Slick Chick" [0:13:30]George Formby - "Springtime's Here Again" [0:16:18]Jim

Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030. from Mar 29, 2022

Mar 30th, 2022

James P. Johnson - "Blue Turning Gray Over You" [0:00:00]Bessie Smith (with Eddie Lang) - "Kitchen Man" [0:08:42]Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month III - Moe Levy Bodenheim" [0:08:45]Cannon's Jug Stompers - "Walk Right In" [0:11:15]B

Money donated during this hour funds the Codger's "infrastructure" needs (whiskey, cigars, Chinese takeout, rare 78rpm discs). Booker T. Bodenheim co-hosts. from Mar 8, 2022

Mar 30th, 2022

Fletcher Henderson - "Queer Notions"Slim Gaillard - "Potato Chips" [0:03:14]Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - "Jack the Bellboy" [0:11:34]Euneeda Bodenheim - "Give to the Old Codger Today!" [0:14:06]Ruth Etting - "Keep Sweeping Cobwebs off

Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio! from Mar 15, 2022

Mar 30th, 2022

Ruth Etting - "Shine on Harvest Moon"Van & Schenck - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" [0:02:36]DJ Fablio - "Please Pledge for the Old Codger" [0:12:58]Sophie Tucker - "I Ain't Taking Orders from No One" [0:14:02]Gerald Wiggins - "S'posin'"

"Everything that's wrong with a human stuffed into one man." — Eli Vardens from Mar 22, 2022

Mar 23rd, 2022

King Nawahi's Hawaiians - "Tickling the Strings"Dixie Rhythm Kings - "The Chant" [0:03:00]Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month II - Music" [0:09:53]Gerald Wiggins - "Wiggin' with Wig" [0:12:43]The Ticklers - "Healing in the Balm Yard"

Everybody deserves a 22nd chance! from Mar 1, 2022

Mar 2nd, 2022

Rube Bloom - "Soliloquy"Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio - "Clawin' the Frets" [0:02:38]Gus Bodenheim - "Bodenheim History Month, ep. 1" [0:09:04]Reginald Foresythe and His Orchestra - "The Duke Insists" [0:11:48]Henry Thomas - "Bull Doze B

Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of "large stones being thrown into a dump-cart." from Feb 22, 2022

Feb 23rd, 2022

Little Jack Little - "Three O'Clock in the Morning"Trio Servando Diaz - "Param Pan Pin" [0:02:43]Euneeda Bodenheim - "The Old Codger Mailbag" [0:10:20]Gertrude Lawrence - "Experiment" [0:12:40]Howard McGhee Sextet - "Midnight at Minton's"

An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent. from Feb 15, 2022

Feb 23rd, 2022

Gus Bodenheim - "Old Codger Non-Discrimination Policy" [0:00:00]Dodo Marmarosa Trio - "Bopmatism" [0:01:36]Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang - "Handful of Riffs" [0:08:32]Beryl Booker (p), Mary Osborne (g), and June Rotenberg (b) - "Low Ceiling"

There are forms of bowel cancer that have higher approval ratings than the Codger. from Feb 8, 2022

Feb 9th, 2022

Earl "Fatha" Hines - "Glad Rag Doll"Mississippi Sheiks - "Stop and Listen Blues" [0:02:50]Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weasel Medi-Spirits™" [0:10:43]Ruth Etting - "So Is Your Old Lady" [0:12:46]Wilmoth Houdini with the Lionel Belasco Orchestra -

A distended gasbag of terribleness. from Feb 1, 2022

Feb 2nd, 2022

George Gershwin - "Preludes for Piano: 1. (Allegro ben ritmato e deciso); 2. (Andante con moto e poco rubato); 3. (Agitato)" - Gershwin: Preludes for Piano [0:00:00]Gus Bodenheim - "Sly Weasel — It's Codgerlicious!" - Sly Weasel Hit-of-the-We

So old his blood type was discontinued. from Jan 25, 2022

Jan 26th, 2022

Regal Jazz Band - "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" - unknown 78 rpm discLionel Hampton & His Just Jazz All Stars & Oscar Peterson - "It's a Blue World" - Lionel Hampton & His Just Jazz All Stars & Oscar Peterson 78 [0:02:34]Euneeda Bodenheim

Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world. from Jan 18, 2022

Jan 19th, 2022

Bix Beiderbecke - "In a Mist"Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Rasslin' 'Til the Wagon Comes" [0:02:41]Gus Bodenheim - "Codgertopia™" [0:09:28]Earl Hines - "Child of a Disordered Brain" [0:11:47]Lonnie Johnson - "I'm Just Dumb" [0:14:37]Sidney

He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul. from Jan 11, 2022

Jan 12th, 2022

Romeo Nelson - "Head Rag Hop" [0:00:00]Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson - "Get Off with Me" [0:04:47]Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Bodenheim's Literary Finessence" [0:11:02]Robert Lee McCoy - "Next-Door Neighbor" [0:14:01]Fats Waller & His Buddies

A stormy petrel of unbalanced mental potentialities. from Jan 4, 2022

Jan 5th, 2022

Gene Rodgers - "Jukebox Boogie"Don Redman - "Chant of the Weed" [0:02:04]Gus Bodenheim - "EschewTube™" [0:10:17]Roger Etlens et son Ensemble - "Swing Guitare" [0:12:10]Mamie Smith - "Don't You Advertise Your Man" [0:14:41]Mary Lou William

Codger: "You throw one piece of equipment at the station manager and suddenly you're branded 'difficult to work with'." from Dec 28, 2021

Dec 29th, 2021

Jabbo Smith - "Michigander Blues"Coot Grant and Kid Wilson - "Come on Coot, Do That Thing" [0:02:55]Euneeda Bodenheim - "Whimsy While You Work" [0:08:54]Victoria Spivey - "He Wants Too Much" [0:10:01]Benny Goodman Trio (with Gene Krupa & T

Blink and you're passé! from Dec 21, 2021

Dec 22nd, 2021

Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - "The Wolf Wobble"Harry "the Hipster" Gibson - "Opus 12 Eee" [0:02:46]Gus Bodenheim - "N.E.B.U.C.H.A.D.N.E.Z.Z.A.R. (Part 1)" [0:09:10]Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (And My Baby's Crazy 'Bout